Ice Prince Zamani Unveil Album Cover

Two of Nigeria’s top artistes, hip hop star Ice Prince Zamani and ‘Durosoke’ crooner, Olamide, have released their official album cover.
Multi award winning hip hop artiste, Ice Prince is building up steam towards the release of his sophomore album, titled ‘Fire of Zamani‘ while Olamide also known as Baddo, is gearing up to release his self titled debut album,  Olamide (Baddest Guy Ever Liveth), on the 7th of November, 2013.
Zamani’s cover shows him dressed in what appears to be like a white coloured jalabia (tradional attire), with a pair of transparent shades

Zac Efron: "I'm Single"

Zac Efron is on the market.
The hottie actor confirmed last night that he's not dating anyone right now.
"I'm single," he said at a Yahoo Movies Q&A for his upcoming comedy That Awkward Moment with costars Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller.
The event was Efron's first official public appearance since news broke last month that he did a stint in rehab earlier in the year.
He looked and sounded healthy and happy at last night's event. Efron, who turns 26 on Friday, is in such good shape that Teller said he likes to call him "mini-Wolverine."
While not specifically referring to rehab, Efron did talk about how he gets through difficult times.
"My family is my rock," he said. "I know they're not going anywhere [and] more and more, I've come to rely on my little brother to keep me grounded." (He's not so little—Dylan Efron is 21 years old.)
"And I know my family's always going to be there, but then there's also as life changes sometimes they can't really be there for you in the way that you need, so I rely on my friends," Efron said.
A red band trailer for That Awkward Moment released yesterday not only shows Efron naked, but in a separate scene, he arrives to a party with a rather large, um, sex toy.
That Awkward Moment hits theaters on Jan. 31, 2014.

Laos Airlines plane crash caused by 'wind shear' from Typhoon Nari

The Laos Airlines plane crash that killed all 49 passengers on board was reportedly caused by the wind shear resulting from “remnants of Typhoon Nari”, a Lao Airlines official said. 

The wind shear is an atmospheric phenomenon which involves a change in wind speed or/and direction with the change in altitude. 

The plane crashed as it “ran into extreme bad weather conditions”, the Laos Ministry of Public Works and Transport said in a statement. The flight QV30149 that was operating an ATR 72-600 twin turboprop engine, was flying from capital Vientiane to town Pakse and crashed few kilometers off its destination on an island near Mekong river on Wednesday. 

According to a top aviation official of Laos Airlines, Chalerm Taiyalad, the plane crashed just before landing as it was raining very heavily and the gusts from tail end of Typhoon Nari causd the pilot to lose control of the plane, the CNN reported. 

The airline said that of 49 dead, 44 were passengers and the remaining five were crew members. 

There were seventeen Laos nationals on board along with others who belonged to France, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Canada, China, Malaysia, Taiwan and the US.

Meanwhile Typhoon Nari, which hit Vietnam's central coast early Tuesday, has claimed 11 lives and flooded tens of thousands of homes. 

UCH Ibadan performs first open heart surgery

The first open heart surgery in a teaching hospital in Nigeria has been successfully carried out at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Oyo State.

The feat was carried out by surgeons at the UCH in conjunction with a team of surgeons from Tri-State Cardiovascular Delaware, USA. (The surgical team that performed the feat pictured above)

A statement by the institution’s Head of Information Unit, Mr. Toye Akinrinola, disclosed that the four-hour surgery was to correct a leaking heart valve in a 19-year-old secondary school leaver.

An elated Chief Medical Director of the UCH, Professor Temitope Alonge, noted that the UCH was moved to embark on the exercise as a way of alleviating the hardship being experienced by Nigerians with heart-related challenges.

He stated that as the first teaching hospital in Nigeria, the UCH should take the lead in critical areas of medicine, propelling it into ensuring that complex surgeries (like open heart surgery) were carried out in the hospital.

“We are the pioneer teaching hospital in Nigeria, and we should be taking the lead. We are going to do this and we intend to make it a continuous exercise.

“In fact, within the next six months, we intend carrying out not less than 30 heart-related surgeries and at affordable cost to Nigerians.”

Alonge, who lamented that Nigerians pay exorbitantly to undergo such procedures outside the country, pointing out that the cheapest rate outside Nigeria was about N2.5 million.

“This is outside the airfare and hotel bills. It will run into millions. But with us here, it will be a lot cheaper and the access is there. The first surgery is heavily subsidised as a way of encouraging Nigerians to have confidence in our healthcare system.”

Alonge stated that the Federal Government had given the UCH a mandate to improve on the training of doctors as a way of enhancing more access to adequate healthcare in Nigeria.

Leader of the doctors from the USA, Dr. Kamar Adeleke noted that the patient would be back to his normal activities in less than two months.

“He does not have anything to fear about life expectancy. He will soon resume his normal activities, and do all the things he was used to before he took ill,” Dr. Adeleke said.

Adeleke gave assurance of his continued support to providing access to adequate healthcare as obtained in other developed countries.

After more than a decade of of inactivity, open heart surgery resumed in the country at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu, at an average cost of N500, 000.

Source: Vanguard